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Revolutionary Foldable Smartphone Shows Shape-Shifting Future for Google Maps
Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab to unveil PaperFold at Toronto conference
KINGSTON ON – Queen’s professor Roel Vertegaal and student Antonio Gomes are unveiling PaperFold, a ground-breaking foldable smartphone. The technology is being released on Monday at the ACM CHI 2014 conference in Toronto – widely regarded as the most important conference on interaction techniques for new technologies.
The shape-changing smartphone allows users to fold open up to three flexible electrophoretic displays to provide extra screen real estate when needed. Displays are detachable such that users can fold the device into various shapes that can range from an ultra notebook shape to a foldout map.
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COCA201 Students Bernard Cheng and Ryan Harris created these robotic plants that senses moods through capacitive touch sensors that are articulated in the plant through flexinol actuation of the leaves.